~She May Be Crazy, But She Still Loves Him~
As Diana Reid's head nurse, I will tell you right off the bat that Diana is hard woman to look after and take care of. Her Schizophrenia made her moods jump from day to day. She was always saying that the government was watching them, always thinking of new ways to control us. I have enough bruises to show that Diana could have probably gone head to head with a government official and beat them in a fight if it wasn't for the fact that she was in mental home in Las Vegas.
But I will also tell you that Diana, despite her fears and illness, loves her son, Spencer Reid, with all her heart. The older woman will always say that her "baby boy" was her most precious person in the world. She would say how smart and handsome he is getting, and how he has so many friends (no one has dare to point out that working in the BAU also means he's working for the FBI, which is connected to the government). She holds a picture of him when he was younger sometimes at night and whisper to it that she was sorry and that she loves him.
Then there was that one incident. I found Diana clawing at her room's walls, her fingers bleeding and her hand cut and scratched, trying to escape. I pulled her away before she could hurt herself anymore, and Diana yelled at me, while trying to stretch her arm back to the wall, "Hold on, Spencer! I'm coming to save you!" When I told her that her son wasn't in any sort of danger, the crazed woman just shook her head and yelled, "He's hurt! He's hungry! He's dying! I need to save my baby!" I, along with a few other doctors and nurses, got her to her bed and infected her with a sedative.
When the woman woke up the next morning, she curled herself in a ball and wouldn't move or eat or do anything. She just whispered, with tears streaming down her face, "It will be ok. I love you, Spencer. Come home. I miss you. It will be ok." I can vaguely remember something that I overheard Diana saying to Spencer during the visit that I met him, "A mother knows. We're animals, Spencer. We feel things." I will point out that I didn't understand what Diana meant at the time, but, as I watched Diana cried and say "I love you, Spencer", I finally understood. Mothers felt everything that their children felt, good or bad.
The day after that, Spencer Reid, along with his team and a large blonde and pink haired woman that I have never seen before, came. He looked tired and thinner, and had bandages on his hands and band aids across his face. There were dark circles under his eyes. When Diana saw him, she ran and hugged him and kissed her forehead. "I love you. I love you. I love you." Spencer just held onto her like he was a little boy who just had a nightmare and whispered, "I love you too, Mom. I love you too." It was one of the most heartwarming, and yet heart breaking, scene that I ever saw and I could feel tears sliding down my cheeks. And I still suspect that his team wanted to cry too, but for some reason didn't. Six pairs of glazed over glass eyes are my only evidence to this statement.
I, along with anyone else for that matter, will say that Diana Reid, a former literature professor, is crazy, maybe even insane, but we can't deny that she loves her son more with everything she has and owns. And that the son loves her.